A 16-week concurrent exercise program improves emotional well-being and emotional distress in middle-aged women: the FLAMENCO project randomized controlled trial.
Menopause
; 28(7): 764-771, 2021 03 11.
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OBJECTIVE: To analyze the influence of a supervised concurrent exercise program on emotional well-being and emotional distress in middle-aged women. METHODS: This randomized controlled trial included 150 middle-aged women recruited for the FLAMENCO project. Participants were allocated into counseling (nâ=â75) or exercise (nâ=â75) groups. The counseling group attended conferences on healthy lifestyle (including diet and physical activity topics). The exercise group followed a 60-min concurrent (aerobicâ+âresistance) exercise training 3âdays/wk for 16âweeks. Emotional health was assessed with the Positive and Negative Affect Schedule (PANAS) in two diverse timeframes, state (PANAS-S) and trait (PANAS-T) ranging from 10 to 50, where higher scores reflect greater affective emotional health/experience (positive affect subscale) and greater emotional distress (negative affect subscale). The differences between the counseling and exercise groups in PANAS were analyzed by linear regression. RESULTS: The total number of women for the per-protocol analyses was 111 divided into the counseling (nâ=â53) and exercise (nâ=â58) groups. After adjusting for body mass index and Mediterranean diet adherence, PANAS-S and PANAS-T-positive affect scores increased by 3.81 and 3.02, respectively, in the exercise group whereas they decreased by 0.15 and increased by 0.51 in the counseling group (both, Pâ<â0.05). PANAS-T negative affect decreased by 4.10 in the exercise group whereas only decreased by 0.9 in the counseling group (Pâ<â0.05). CONCLUSION: A 16-week concurrent exercise program improved emotional experience in middle-aged women. Specifically, women in the exercise group significantly improved their emotional well-being and emotional distress through greater changes in positive affect and negative affect compared with the counseling group.
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MEDLINE
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Ejercicio Físico
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Distrés Psicológico
Tipo de estudio:
Clinical_trials
Límite:
Female
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Humans
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Middle aged
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Menopause
Asunto de la revista:
GINECOLOGIA
Año:
2021
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Article
País de afiliación:
España
Pais de publicación:
Estados Unidos